
The National Centre for Propulsion and Power (NCPP), housed within the New Whittle Laboratory at Cambridge, is designed to dramatically accelerate technology development for aviation and power generation. It includes a 4MW wind tunnel and a flexible 1.2MW rotating rig facility, plus a 60-tonne pressure vessel enabling entirely new testing capability in the UK. The NCPP aims to bring Formula-1-style rapid iteration to decarbonising flight and energy.